Month: September 2017

Teen Teams! Those lovable bundles of angst and fury. That’s the main topic this week. Young Justice, New Warriors, Teen Titans, Champions, Nova, Generation X, among others. Also Merk introduces a new game, Kyle plays Character Storm, a teensy bit o’ news, bumblebee is in trouble, Bry hates Rob Schneider, the sordid tale of the two Dennis the Menaces, Missy the Mongoose and Planet of the Dogs! All that and more! Put this in your ears true teen believers!!

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Welcome to Zero Issues! We’ve prepared a little primer, so that you don’t go back to the first episode and listen that way. This thing ain’t Serial; it’s three dorks, hanging out, talking some comics, beering up. We hope you survive you experience!

The adventures of your favourite comic characters will never really end, but… do you sometimes wish they would? This week the boys talk about “personal end points”, those stories that seem to perfectly wrap up a hero’s journey, with our favourite examples and how it can be hard to keep following them into their next run.

Also: Titans TV casting, entirely too many Joker movies, a round of Superhero Mad-Libs, and an extremely mature Dramatic Reading of a golden-age Blue Beetle comic where Dan Garrett takes on a, uh… large member… of his rogues’ gallery.

Hail to the King, baby. This week we’re talking Jack Kirby, the King of Comics. His hundredth birthday just passed, and despite being gone for, um, a number of years, the effect of his work is still felt constantly in the comic industry. So we Kirby it up for a bit!

Plus: we’ve got all the Marvel Netflix news, just, like, all of it, and bookend the show with grousing about thoughtfully discussing book burnout (due to too many events?) and the recently-ended Secret Empire.